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FLASHBACK: Media’s Ugliest Attacks on Gun Rights Supporters

Geoffrey Dickens
February 14th, 2019 1:57 PM

The media are using the one year anniversary of the Parkland, Florida shooting to push for more gun control. It’s something they started doing immediately after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.The following is a collection of the media’s ugliest attacks on gun rights supporters after the Parkland, Florida shooting.

 
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Media Go Soft on Dem's Israel Is ‘Evil’ Comment: ‘Put That in Context'

Scott Whitlock
January 17th, 2019 12:52 PM
The journalists at PBS and CNN are very forgiving when it comes to accusations of bigotry and hate. Well, as long as you’re a Democrat. A tweet of now-Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has resurfaced in which she calls Israel “evil” and says the nation has “hypnotized the world.” Yet, PBS journalist Christiane Amanpour asked the Democrat to simply “put that in context.” CNN wondered “what your message” is…
 
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NB Year in Review: The Most Idiotic Analysis of 2018

Geoffrey Dickens
December 27th, 2018 8:00 AM

This week, NewsBusters is recounting the most obnoxious liberal bias of 2018. Today, we're reviewing the most idiotic quotes of the year. Journalists making the cut this year include Chris Matthews wanting “thought and prayers” to be “outlawed,” The New York Times telling readers that communist theorist Karl Marx was “right,” and CNN’s Jim Sciutto scaring his audience about climate change, as…

 
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Amanpour Invokes Bush 41, Throws Pity Party for ‘Moderate’ McCaskill

Curtis Houck
December 7th, 2018 2:40 PM
While invoking the passing of former President George H. W. Bush, CNN International and PBS host Christiane Amanpour fretted on Thursday’s show that “[a]s President Bush One is laid to rest, one of the Senate’s true moderates heads home in defeat,” blaming it on “conservative dark money,” “negative ads,” and a refusal by voters to accept McCaskill’s manufactured image as someone right down the…
 
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More Bush Bashing: Remembering His ‘Racist’ 1988 Campaign

Brad Wilmouth
December 6th, 2018 5:50 PM
Appearing as a guest on Wednesday's Amanpour and Company on PBS to discuss former President George H.W. Bush's legacy, The New Yorker editor David Remnick condemned Bush's use of convicted murderer Willie Horton in the 1988 presidential campaign as "racist." Host Christiane Amanpour also suggested that Bush had run a "racist" campaign ad. 
 
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Jon Stewart: Midterms Could Be Beginning of the End of President Trump

Randy Hall
November 6th, 2018 6:25 PM
Even though Jon Stewart hasn’t been the host of The Daily Show on the Comedy Central cable channel for four years, the liberal comedian still takes advantage of every opportunity to slam President Trump, whom he blames for the world being “in a terrible situation.” That was the case when Stewart spoke at Monday evening’s Stand Up for Heroes benefit honoring wounded veterans in New York City,…
 

Jon Stewart: Trump Uses Journos’ Own 'Narcissism' Against Them

Matt Philbin
October 31st, 2018 11:46 AM
Imagine a CNN personality claiming to be mystified by the “daily Trump-fest.” This is, after all, the network of Brian Stelter, who never misses an opportunity to whine that Trump is “poisoning the American people” against the media. But let’s pretend that Christiane Amanpour really does lack all self-awareness and, perplexed, she recently turned to journalism mentor Jon Stewart for guidance. “I…
 
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Conway Shoots Down Media Hype Over WH in Chaos After Op-Ed

Kristine Marsh
September 11th, 2018 4:31 PM
Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway shot down media reports that the White House was in chaos, while speaking to PBS host and veteran correspondent Christiane Amanpour on her new PBS show Monday evening.
 

NYT Takes Feminist Angle on Amanpour's PBS Show, Ignores Lefty Slant

Clay Waters
September 10th, 2018 6:25 PM
New York Times reporter John Koblin hailed, in feminist terms, liberal CNN International journalist Christiane Amanpour taking over the old Charlie Rose slot on PBS with Amanpour & Company : “No Longer Dark, Clubby, Or Led by a Man." Koblin said that despite Amanpour's failure as a host of ABC's "This Week," she "remains a believer in her own idea of what American audiences want." But do…
 
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Puzzled Amanpour: Why Did NBC Spike Farrow’s Weinstein Scoop?

Scott Whitlock
August 14th, 2018 5:55 PM
PBS host Christiane Amanpour appeared puzzled as to why NBC spiked Ronan Farrow’s investigation into powerful Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Discussing the disgraced Democratic donor on Monday, Amanpour asked the journalist: “Why do you think the media entities [spiked the story]? Our DNA is to be investigative. What was it about the media that wanted you not to tell these stories?” 
 
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Video Montage: Cable News Sees the Apocalypse in Trump/Putin Summit

Bill D'Agostino
July 16th, 2018 9:51 PM

Within mere hours of President Trump’s press conference with Vladimir Putin concluding, cable news had worked themselves into a frenzy that suggested the sky itself must be falling. While criticism of Trump’s foreign policy decisions – especially those pertaining to Russia – has been bipatisan, the sheer meoldrama of the liberal media’s comments suggested they had lost sight of what they were…

 
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CNN: ‘Surreal’ Summit Is ‘Incredibly Depressing Moment’ in Our History

Curtis Houck
July 16th, 2018 1:45 PM
After AC360 host Anderson Cooper deemed Monday's Trump-Putin press conference “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president,” the craziness continued with Cooper stating that “today is just an incredibly depressing moment in our time in our history as an American” while other panelists opined that it’s been a “surreal” day known as “the surrender summit.” 
 
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Cooper: ‘One of the Most Disgraceful Performances’ by a U.S. President

Curtis Houck
July 16th, 2018 12:41 PM
Reacting to the late Monday morning joint press conference (U.S. time) between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, CNN’s Anderson Cooper declared that he had just witnessed “perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader certainly that I've ever seen” at “[a]n extraordinary press conference.”
 
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CNN's Berman Compares Trump's Diplomacy to 'Hulk Smash'

Ryan Foley
July 12th, 2018 9:35 PM
During Wednesday’s edition of New Day, the panel suffered a meltdown over President Trump’s suggestion that NATO members should pay their fair share and bringing up Germany’s reliance on Russia for oil. According to co-host John Berman: “This kind of diplomacy looks like Hulk smash. This looks like the avengers, Hulk smash.” Later, panelist John Avlon lamented that the office President Trump…